stashbusting and some pics

No fabric came into the house this week, and none were finished into tops or quilts either :( So it's a wash of a week for me. Lots and Lots of blocks made- alot of near finishes. I hope Mr Juki is done soon so I can quilt.


I did manage to finsh 4 more ocean waves blocks - yippee only 56 more to go. Lots of partials going but I needed to stop and start making the rows of Carolina Crossroads. I for the 3 middle ones sewn together and put it all away for the move today.

The cats woke me up at 4AM this morning. I was not a happy camper and I couldn't run a machine as the rest of the house was sleeping so I was sewing a few more tumbling blocks together....of course wise guy I'm married to asked it if was a Q Bert quilt?








We put a shelf up, rearranged the sewing area so I'm facing the windows. I've decided I have way too many books...lol. But I couldn't find any I wanted to part with. See Ethel on the book case. I need to order one of those cute boxes for her.
I don't know if you can see the box from the first treadle base...which was way past being able to repair for less than alot more than it was worth. I kept the machine and pitched the base- 2 refinishers said it wasn't worth fixing with all the cracks in the wood and what looks like had termites....but the box covers my embroidery machine PERFECTLY. That will be stripped and refinished in the spring VBG>






This HUGE and HEAVY box came Friday to me - wonder what's under all those styrofoam pellets??????




Isn't it great???? Mel sent it to me when I killed the Janome Gem last weekend. There are a million buttons.I joined a Viking Group and was able to get a pdf of the manuel and will print it out tomorrow and play. Thank you so much Mel!!! You Rock as DD would say

Oh my aching back

THe other day I decided that my back was ok and I cut almost all the tubes for making hsts with the wondercut ruler-BIG MISTAKE . By the end of the day (Thursday) I wanted to cry. My back kept feeling like it was going to go out. Now knock wood it hasn't happened in years. I've been very good about what I do to prevent the fusing surgery they were talking about almost 12 years ago.
But hubby, the clueless prince I married remembered that I promised to make burritos for the guys at the town fair booth today while they work on some kind of child information discs- you know pictures, fingerprints, height and weight, dental imprints. Parents get a disc that if their child goes missing they give this disc to the police . Great program and free ! So I figure a batch of burritos is fine- who am I kidding ???? He wanted 30 of them!! So I did 2 double batches of the meat- Thursday night when the back started going out and yesterday morning while it still felt like crap :(
But last night I made the 30 he wanted and 8 for us for dinner.....in case you ever needed to now, this is what 30 look like reheating for today's lunch right before hubby came to pick them up. That man owes me BIG TIME. Good thing he's cute :)






On a different note about Thursday, I also worked on the new members gift for my quilt guild. Seems they didn't tell me that the Vice President makes gifts for all the new members....sigh. I emailed the logo of the guild to one of my friends and her hubby made the PES file that my embroidery machine uses. So I need to make 12 of these cute little towels by Friday night.I think I can, I think I can.
Mel got me this great thread stand for a secret santa gift last year. I love all the dowels so that I can line up the colors for embroidery in the order I need them....
for those that read my blog during Lent on Yahoo....see the plush Peeps sewn together to look like the Peep Joust that started it all???????Snicker , snicker.




I did manage to get 100 of yellow/light and 100 of orange/light hsts done by this morning...only 110 of each to go and I'll have 5 of 16 colors worth of hsts done.....
Will someone commit me now and put me out of my misery...PLEASE